Top 49 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.